Handmade Gifts for Home

Useful things for a kitchen, a desk, or a drawer: coasters, tea towels, sachets, and organizers.

4 tutorials published

Fabric-Covered Pencil Holder: A Desk Organizer from a Tin Can

Turn a clean tin can into a desk organizer by measuring and gluing on a fabric cover, folding the top edge over the rim and adding twine and a felt base.

Handmade Gifts for Home

Lavender Sachets: A Small Sewn Gift for Drawers and Closets

Sew small cotton sachets, fill them with dried lavender through a paper funnel, and close them with ladder stitch or a ribbon tie.

Handmade Gifts for Home

Stamped Tea Towels: Printing a Simple Pattern by Hand

Print a plain cotton or linen tea towel with fabric paint and a stamp cut from a potato, a cork or craft foam, using folded creases to keep the pattern evenly spaced.

Handmade Gifts for Home

How to Sew Fabric Coasters: A Set of Four for Beginners

Sew four padded cotton coasters from 5 in squares: stack three layers, stitch leaving a turning gap, clip the corners, turn and topstitch.